Of WordPress Training and Learning
Over at Interconnect IT, where I work, we’ve found that demand for our WordPress Training Courses has shot up over the past year or so. And it’s certainly interesting to see where the work comes from.
Curiously, it’s very polarised — we either work with smaller one man band companies like Jason Nevin who runs a house […]
Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?
I noticed on my pingdom stats recently that this site has been slowing down recently. But why? Is it WordPress? Some plugins? Time for research!
Read moreWhat it’s Like to Present and Attend at WordCamp UK
Over the weekend just gone I made two planned presentations at WordCamp UK 2009 down in Cardiff. I also threw in a quick 45 minutes of show and tell on the Caribou Theme that runs this site and is available for download from Spectacula.
Read moremySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP
Ever needed to migrate a database to a new server or website (especially with WordPress and other PHP applications) and been stuck because when you do a search and replace some of the data seems to get corrupted?
Read moreSlow Posting Performance in WordPress 2.7
An interesting problem today — WordPress posting on this site was sloooooow. Some other back-end tasks were also incredibly slow.
Adding a post or page would take about 30 to 60 seconds. Unacceptable. I did the usual job of deactivating plugins, and even resorted to a different theme for a few minutes but no, it was all still […]
Handy Tip for CSS Reloading
CSS not refreshing in the browser can be a pain — Mark Jaquith has come up with an elegant solution to this for WordPress coders.
Read morePHP Serialization Fix for WordPress Migrations (& other applications like Expression Engine)
Serialization of data loaded into an SQL table is a dreadful thing and makes WordPress migrations harder than they should be, but it happens and so we must deal with it. I’ve knocked up a rough and ready bit of code which does its best to resolve the problem.
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